FLAG OF IRELAND

The flag of Ireland, it is known as the Irish tricolor is the national flag of the Republic of Ireland. The flag was adopted as the flag of Irish Free State from its creation in 1922 was confirmed as an official flag in the constitution of December 1937. The use of three colors is attested from 1830, when the Irish patriots celebrated the return of the tricolor in France after the revolution of 1830. The flag in its current arrangement was developed in 1848 by the Young Ireland movement. He was raised in Dublin during the Easter Uprising of 1949. It was a long banned flag in the six northern counties under British sovereingty. The tricolor national flag was seen as an all Ireland, hence the Northern Irish nationalists used it.